^ & 3PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. iLeltsomt«L 



foliage, beautifully contrasting with the profuse, pale, pink-coloured 

 .flowers, — The stem of the largest individual in the Botanic Garden 

 measures upwards of sixteen inches in circumference, and is covered 

 with uneven ash-coloured bark. Branches perfectly round, verv lon«' 

 •and slender, together with the petiols and peduncles covered with soft, 

 white, adpressed hairs.— Leaves ovate, most entire, cuspidate-acumi- 

 nate, slightly cordate at the base, from six to eight inches Ion* 

 -perfectly smooth, opaque, and of a deep green colour above ; densely 

 covered underneath with copious, adpressed, silky hairs, which give 

 the surface a most splendent appearance, rib very prominent, sending 

 forth numerous approximate, sub-transversal, entire nerves ; veins few. 

 The young leaves are somewhat ovate-oblong. — Tetiol thick, round, 

 obscurely furrowed above, about one-third the length of its leaf; 

 its upper end slightly compressed, with an oval dark- coloured glan- 

 dular depression on each side, immediately above the base of the 

 leaf. — Flowers large, in axillary, and terminal, long-peduncled, once 

 or twice trichotomous, hoary corymbs. — Peduncles round, one-third 

 shorter than the leaves, erect ; pedicels short, with a pair of ovate 

 obtuse deciduous bractes at the middle. — Calyx ovate, hoary, con- 

 sisting of five oval obtuse leaves. — Corol campanulate, about two 

 inches long, hairy on the outside, the plicatures as well as the inner 

 surface smooth ; limb short, with five retuse lobes. — Stamens short, 

 unequal, their bases villous. — Stigma in the mouth of the corol two- 

 lobed, round. — Berry of the size of a large pea, round, of a scarlet 

 colour, pointed with the remaining base of the style, perfectly 

 smooth, smaller than the leathery concave spreading round leaves of 

 the permanent calyx which is hoary without and crimson, smooth 

 within. — Integument thin, dry. — Seeds four, triugular, smooth. — 

 N. W. 



2. L. aggregata, R. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves cordate, woolly underneath. Tedun* 



